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Readers need to focus their attention on detail if they are to engage with big ideas. When a reader interprets details they produce knowledge; the production of knowledge allows them to gain insight...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Many students in an Auckland primary school were able to decode adequately, but still had difficulty in understanding what they read. A modified reciprocal reading programme was shown to improve...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The difficulties many students experience in learning to read frequently relate to a lack of strategies and confidence. Learning to read is readily accepted as one of the most complex behaviours we...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
To identify the specific needs of students with respect to literacy in the content areas, 21 students from Years 9-13 were interviewed about their views of themselves as readers and writers, and how...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The family is one of the sites for literacy learning and that families vary both between themselves and according to culture. This article provides some suggestions with the aim of encouraging a...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
| Year published: 2022 | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set2022_1_038.pdf | Content type: Set article
The skills of oral narrative and phonological awareness are seen as precursors and predictors of reading development. In this study of bilingual Māori primary school students, Fleur Harris found that...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2009_3_11.pdf | Content type: Set article
Poetry can be a significant aspect of a person’s literacy experiences (Tomlinson & Lynch-Brown, 2002). It is an excellent genre for learning, but what are the best methods and should poetry be...
| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article